Crossword for Sun, 13/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Turkish ruler appearing in a widely distributed album (5,4)

5: Jet to Mars for one, never reaching the end (5)

8: Beat writer's collaborator briefly drank (5)

9: Overhear them speak of the serpent's purpose. (9)

11: A sign of winter here in Paris -- clashes when ash is dumped (7)

12: Listening to playwright's baloney (5)

13: The French Mr Menzies is a rodent (7)

15: No saint takes strong drink as a remedy (7)

17: She plays in a small enclosure on one street (7)

18: Lets stand on a cowboy hat (7)

19: Unholy father backed shrew (5)

21: Elsa ran frantically for store (7)

23: Mongrels at each others' throats in this ruthless world. (3, 3, 3)

24: Guided into the West (2,3)

25: Waves of laborers reported (5)

26: Moderately amphibian, for example, by the middle of the creek (2,1,6)
Down
2: Ceremonial lamb turned about a revolving spit (9)

3: Sing gist of laudatory ode loudly (5)

4: Sigh in the midst of plain neglect (9)

5: Reverend Spooner's congregants join together in fast (9)

6: Pointer: 'Start off thin' (5)

7: Plowmen let Amy spread job statute (10,3)

8: Diet, sir! Clergy upset with fat constituents (13)

10: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)

14: Clarifier is followed by mixed signals (9)

15: Crazy to signal a desire for the old days (9)

16: Oscillating crystal perhaps not so rare (9)

19: Silver inside for each calling device (5)

20: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

22: Dessert is said to be set. (5)




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